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it's good for the asus a8n-sli/6600gt, plus you can always clip a few pins that are in the way

oh, and the point of my relating my misadventure was: no need to return it, it'll probaby work fine as it

VGA?

yep, perfectly normal, once it gets into the 60s, worry

good for you! chip fan can be problematic after a few months, just replace it with zalman heat sink tower thingie. mine posted fine with 1002 bios but you need an upgrade to at least 1006 to get some overclocking capabilities (unlocking the fsb, to be precise), it's finicky with memory so...

to be on the safe side don't do that... yes, pm has an option of resizing a partition and most of the time it works *most of the time* now, for the reasons why i think partitions are good: i always have at least fat32 and an ntfs partition on my 250 storage drive so that different os have...

pm is the best one, if you want to save current file system, just tell it to make the free space into a seprate partition and it won't touch your C partition. you don't want a 250 hd to be on one partition anyway

well, that's a config i have and shopping for vga now. nothing wrong with sli, just upgrade later (don't wait too long or the gpu revsion will change and sli no longer work) or save the second pci-e slot for something else that will come along (may be some fancy tv/cable card... i don't what...

those athlons are hardy bastards, here is what happened to mine: 1) big mistake on my part as I haven't built a pc since the P3 days: I didn't put the processor in right and then proceeded to try to jam the heatsink on top of it, obviously it didn't work and the whole unit got stuck instead...

anyone know what actually happens to the fan? mine will start making noise like two cats killing eachother in my pc. i turn it off for a while and then it's ok for a day or so... so random. anyone know what's wrong with it? is it the heat?

p4 run hot and eat a lot of power, go with amd, asus makes stable (but on the pricy side) mobos that work great with amd

i had that problem and it turned out to be an irq conflict. i fixed it by installing/uninstalling it several times (on laptop). also try assigning it it's own irq in bios if it lets you (mine doesn't). in my desktop the conflict was with a card in the pci slot so if you have anything in the pci...

more info (this is too weird): on the asus site... duh, when in doubt go to the manufac. site the specs for the 6600 ?GT? don't mention anything about sli-capabilities (yet the sli link is there) here it is listed as 6600 GT: http://usa.asus.com/products/vga/vgaindex.htm whereas 6800GT...

there is not much wrong that can go with a crt if it turns on and no pins are missing (which I'm sure the refurbs are fine with that), so go for it

what's not to like?